Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Habits & Behaviour Change
A topic within Habits & Behaviour Change, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Wendy Wood, Leona Tam & Melissa Guerrero Witt
Finds that habits persist strongly through stable circumstances but break down when a context such as moving home changes, showing environmental disruption rather than willpower is what actually interrupts an established habit.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Bas Verplanken & Wendy Wood
Argues that habits resist ordinary persuasion because they run without deliberation, and that they are best broken by disrupting the context that cues them — such as a house move — rather than by supplying new information.
link checked 17 Sept 2026